I'm looking for a pocketable smartphone headphone/mic combination and don't know much about what's available.   I want something that is good for voice calls, especially mic quality. Should be far above the free mass-produced type but doesn't necessarily need to be audiophile quality as I have...

I currently have SoundMagic PL50 balanced armature in-ear monitors.   I like them both for comfort and fit and for sound. I got them because I listen to classical music and read that balanced armature is recommended, and they were a good choice.   The main problem is they are too sensitive...

Hi. The wires in my AKG K501 cable have detached themselves from their contacts in their headphone. Is anyone able to resolder them? The cable may need to be stripped a few mm to release some more wire. Will pay a reasonable amount, would like it to be done properly. Thanks!

I found a place that does ear moulds. Looking to get two pairs. One for use with Etymotic ER-15 Musicians' Earplugs. The other for in-ear headphones that I haven't chosen yet. Does the audiologist attach the filters/headphones or is there a standard fitting? I suppose it would be...

A lot of USB soundcards including my current E-MU one have bugs related to Windows power modes (sleep, hibernate particularly). People are not only having problems with E-MU (Amazon.com: C. Roddie "croddie"'s review of EMU 0202 USB 2.0 Audio Interface) but also TASCAM (Hangs Windows Computers...

I'm wondering if anyone here uses Vista Media Center. If so how do your organize your music? Do you use the default interface or an add-on? Can you organize by directory structure? Does it do gapless playback?

Hope this post is OK in this forum. I disassembled one of the cups of my AKG K501 and ended up getting confused and also breaking a wire. If you can figure out the fiddly parts and resolder the wire (that bit is straightforward) could you let me know? I'll pay a reasonable price for the work...

Hello. My K501 cables have disintegrated. Is anyone willing to mend or replace them? The fault is near where the cable enters the headphone casing, should be fairly easy to get to. Either a new cable or can use the part of the existing cable that has not disintegrated. I am in NJ. Will pay...

http://console.jp/en/index.html http://console.jp/en/about/image/about_1_l.gif You can route audio streams around and apply vst and directx effects with a simple graphical interface. Works as a standalone application or as a directx or vst or directx plugin itself. Anyone here used this...

Can anyone recommend software or methods to manage music archives? Here's what I will have Lossless FLAC archive --> backup lossless archive | --> lossy OGG files Same directory structure in all 3, same files except for being FLAC or OGG. 1. What's a good way to create the lossy...

Hi. My music on my h140 is in flac but I'm thinking of using lossy compression on some of it to fit more in. Bitrates for the flac are between 285 and 1000 kbs, with 600 being about average. Probably looking for something in the 200-300kbs range. It's classical music. I gather Ogg Vorbis...

Some interesting stuff here, quite promising: Quote: Originally Posted by amirm Some of you know about me and our activities in audio/video compression and HD optical formats such as HD DVD. But probably don’t know about other types of signal processing that my team does at Microsoft...

My ihp-140 has died prematurely after only a couple of weeks, just as the last music files were going on. It had uploaded about 20Gb of music by USB 2 that session and then the transfer stalled. It was a quite warm from the hard drive usage. It still said "USB connection" or whatever the...

Hi. Sorry if this has come up before I can't find the way to search for threads with "closed" and "classical". Anything decent here? Favourite open headphones so far are the AKG K501s and I'm not expecting to like a closed headphone to sound as good to me, but it will be useful for...

A very simple question. I know that in rockbox you can navigate by tags. I want to know if you can also navigate by directory structure. Thanks!

Help! I've just got an M-Audio Keystation 61es, but it doesn't come with software for playing sounds! I've been downloading all sorts of stuff but can't get anything to work. I just want something which takes a MIDI input and comes out with sound! (I have Adobe Audition which has some MIDI...

Hi. I'm sure this has been asked before but I can't find anything. I'm going to encode my lossless collection to LAME mp3 and want a way of doing this conveniently and without melting my CPU. I have a directory of lossless music and would like a program to convert it into the same...

Many DAPs don't offer gapless playback. Is this true for all file formats or just some? (I heard something about mp3 files having to be a multiple of a certain length which I can imagine would give problems for lossless playback.) I am going to encode my lossless collection and I need to...

From CiTay at hydrogenaudio: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...3&#entry402223 Might be useful if you are looking for a drive and will be using EAC.

I am looking for a small (12.5") and relatively quiet window air conditioner. Can anyone recommend anything? It's getting hot and humid over here and I don't like it and my violin likes it even less. Cheers!

I get loud clicking noises from my NJB3 through one channel when music is near silent. Sometimes in orchestral music when there is silence and sometimes between movements. Especially when the orchestra fades to silence one does not want loud clicking noises from the player. Has anyone...

Can anyone advise on good places to buy stocks? I have about 10K that I want to put into stocks for a couple of years. Something balanced like index trackers would be ideal. Looking for low fees and annual charges. Anyone willing to share any wisdom here? Cheers CSMR

Of course hiss reduction isn't the fault of a medium, it's the fault of the engineers and producers of CDs and other digital media. These media have given these people the opportunity to apply hiss reduction when transferring from analog recordings, to achieve a clean sound. And in the process...

I uninstalled Cubase without realizing it was linked to the E-MU. Now ASIO doesn't work. I can't find my E-MU CD; any way of getting ASIO to work without Cubase? Thanks!

Apparently Naxos is making their collection available for download. Good news because it is a huge collection and not all easy to find in stores. Does anyone know if it will be available lossless? I don't know much about downloading music, but I will certainly buy some of their music this way if...